Monday, February 27, 2023

To achieve its chip moonshot, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the US must reform its education system and triple graduates in chip-related fields by 2032 (Rana Foroohar/Financial Times)

Rana Foroohar / Financial Times:
To achieve its chip moonshot, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the US must reform its education system and triple graduates in chip-related fields by 2032  —  To build a domestic industry, the US must reform how it teaches its workforce  —  In the decade following US President John F …



Cloud security and visibility startup Wiz raised a $300M Series D led by Lightspeed at a $10B valuation, up from $6B in October 2021 after raising $250M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech:
Cloud security and visibility startup Wiz raised a $300M Series D led by Lightspeed at a $10B valuation, up from $6B in October 2021 after raising $250M  —  The Israeli startup said that it will not hold any of the funds in Israel due to the impending judicial coup



Google announces new features for Android, ChromeOS, and Wear OS, including Fast Pair support for Chromebooks, Keep shortcuts, and Wear OS accessibility modes (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google announces new features for Android, ChromeOS, and Wear OS, including Fast Pair support for Chromebooks, Keep shortcuts, and Wear OS accessibility modes  —  Google has announced a slew of new features for Android, Chromebook and Wear OS that are designed to improve connectivity, productivity and accessibility.



Sunday, February 26, 2023

Some experts, particularly those advocating for "ethical AI" or "responsible AI", say Microsoft and OpenAI's new Bing experiment is dangerous for the public (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Some experts, particularly those advocating for “ethical AI” or “responsible AI”, say Microsoft and OpenAI's new Bing experiment is dangerous for the public  —  Even the people behind new artificial intelligence systems say their buzzy products are ‘somewhat broken.’ They're relying on us to fix them.



Reports: 50+ Twitter staff were laid off over the weekend, including Twitter's product lead Esther Crawford, and Revue founder Martijn de Kuijper (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Reports: 50+ Twitter staff were laid off over the weekend, including Twitter's product lead Esther Crawford, and Revue founder Martijn de Kuijper  —  Crawford headed up various projects at Twitter, including the company's Blue with verification subscription as well as Twitter's forthcoming payments platform.



Source: Esther Crawford, who became one of the most influential leaders at Twitter after Musk's takeover, is out as Director of Product Management (Zoë Schiffer/@zoeschiffer)

Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer:
Source: Esther Crawford, who became one of the most influential leaders at Twitter after Musk's takeover, is out as Director of Product Management  —  Just got confirmation that Esther Crawford, chief executive of Twitter Payments, is out.



Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech : Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; ...